This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 30 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Modern English begins with this period. A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renaissance. 2. Social, psychological, and religious debates in modern plays are the features of drama in A) Victorian period. B) 20th century period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20th century period. 3. Which type of poem consists of 14 lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme, often used by Shakespeare to express love and emotions? A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Limerick. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 4. Who is considered the pioneer of the Romantic movement in literature? A) William Shakespeare. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) William Wordsworth. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 5. The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 6. Why can Yamba forgive her captors? A) They ultimately made her life better by bringing her to a better country. B) They didn't know what they were doing was wrong. C) They introduced her to religion. D) She has experienced the forgiveness of God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She has experienced the forgiveness of God. 7. Name two Elizabethan sonneteers. A) John Keats(2) John Lyly. B) Shelly(2) Wordsworth. C) Wyatt(2) Surrey. D) Vaughan(2) Carew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wyatt(2) Surrey. 8. The restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the throne with the return of Charles II from France in 1660; the literary period of the later part of the century of which the leading figure was John Dryden. A) Restoration. B) English Renaissance. C) Romantic Age. D) Medieval Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restoration. 9. The repetition of the accented vowel sound, and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry. A) End Rhyme. B) Feminine Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Masculine Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 10. A form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of the two which relies on action to portray life and character A) Drama. B) Elegy. C) Essay. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 11. A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. A) Archetype. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 12. Satire is often meant to be funny, but not always. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? A) James Wyatt. B) Theodore Wyatt. C) Thomas Wyatt. D) Jake Wyatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Wyatt. 14. Who are some of the prominent Romantic poets in British literature? A) Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe. B) William Shakespeare, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, T.S. Eliot. C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. D) Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. 15. One unaccented syllable followed by an accented one A) Monosyllabic. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iamb. 16. Poetry having no metrical pattern A) Free verse. B) Blank verse. C) Theory. D) Madrigal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 17. 3 feet A) Hexameter. B) Pentameter. C) Tetrameter. D) Trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trimeter. 18. ..... poetry mourns the dead A) Homily. B) Epic. C) Elegiac. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegiac. 19. Easily excused or forgiven A) Venial. B) Goad. C) Superfluous. D) Lithe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venial. 20. Arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs A) Insipid. B) Dogmatic. C) Jaundiced. D) Extraneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dogmatic. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9British Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books